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Javier A. Ceja-Navarro

From Chemical Engineering to Microbiology and Back

In this presentation, Dr. Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will tell us about his career path through science and the opportunities that led him to work with microbes, critters, and the environment.

Javier was born in Tuxpan, Nayarit, Mexico and finished all his undergraduate and graduate coursework in Mexico. He came to UC Berkeley nine years ago as a visiting scholar while finishing his PhD studies. This first visit influenced his life and desire to explore the chemical and biological sciences at Berkeley and to become a scientist studying the complex interactions that occur in different environments. However, this is not the whole story, and Dr. Navarro will take us through his journey, from his childhood curiosity about the natural world and first experiments to the different events that brought him to choose what is now his career and passion for illustration, nature, and science.